[python-win32] How to replace the values with keys ?

[Tim Roberts]

Graps Graps wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried
>
> import aDict
> import re
> infile = open('text1.txt','rw')
> outfile = open('text3.txt','w')
> def replace_words(infile, aDict):
>     rc=re.compile('|'.join(map(re.
> escape, aDict)))
>     def translate(match):
>          return aDict[match.group(0)]
>          return rc.sub(translate, infile)
> outfile = replace_words(infile,aDict)
>
> I am thrown with:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in replace_words
> TypeError: argument 2 to map() must support iteration
>
> I imported text2.txt , containing python dictionary as aDict.py. I 
> want the replaced values in a separate file text3.txt.

You need to show us exactly what aDict.py contains.  If it looks like this:

    aDict = {
        'a': '1', ...
    }

then you should probably start your program with this:
    from aDict import aDict

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